jtakacs
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oh, and find a place to put everything...
Hartski said:4. Build my brew room up to the point I can keg or bottle.
5. Brew something my girlfriend can enjoy. She's not a beer drinker.
1. Start All-Grain brewing - DONE
2. Build a 3-Tier Sculpture - DONE
3. Build a fermentation chamber - DONE
4. Brew a Barleywine
5. Brew at least 100 gallons - IN PROGRESS
TheDom said:1. Keep my pipeline full. Two of three taps on homebrew at all times. *So far, so good!*
2. Expand keezer to full 5 tap potential.
3. Find a cheap CO2 cylinder on craigslist to have a backup.
4. Convince SWMBO to let me build an electric brew system. *probably not happening this year*
With 11 weeks left in the year (!!) 2 1/2 out of 8 ain't bad, I guess...1. Refine my process and cut my all-grain brew days down to 3 hours.
2. Finish my bottle filler and send bottles as belated Christmas gifts.
3. Use up all my old grains and hops in a "surprise" beer.
4. Buy a mill and go bulk.
5. Upgrade to 10-gallon brews.
6. Enter a beer competition and take 1st in at least one category.
7. Brew one brett beer and one oaked beer.
8. Add 2 more kegs to my system.*
*1 Keg
1) Build a single tier system
2) Get that yeast bank going this year
3) Build up a better hops stash, more varieties
4) Enter more competitions, more specifically, brew for competitions.
5) Step up to more 10 gallon batches, maybe this is a subset of #1
1) Figure out my mash temp (thermometers) inconsistencies so I can hit my numbers!
2) Enter a competition
3) Fine tune a recipe (thinking my brown right now, but maybe a blonde or pale ale)
4) Relocate to area that will allow for brewing! I am getting married on September 10, 2011 and will be moving out of the parents house sometime between now and then. I will probably have to live in a small apartment, but I want to try and be able to live somewhere that will accommodate my AG brewing setup.
1. Get a 10 gal kettle
2. Brew a barleywine
3. Brew a Goose Island Sofie clone
4. Buy more kegs
5. Make some mead
1. finish what i started (not limited to brewing)
2. spend less money on brewing.
3. learn more
4. apply what i learn
1. Flanders Red, extra sour please
2. kegging.
3. Homebrew party, where I brew and they drink.
Win best of show at a competition.
1. Add another Keggle to my single tier AG rig
2. Yeast Harvesting/Banking
3. Some level of automation with AG rig
4. Win a first place in a competition (two thirds and two HM in my first year brewing)
1.) Master the fine art of brewing Koelsch... Five batches in, I am still not quite "there".
2.) Brew at least two batches of lagers during the January/early February timeframe (to facilitate temp control).
3.) More consistently save my yeast for repitching in future batches
4.) Work on my "ClusterFuggle" beer experiments (beers with uncommon ingredients, or at least uncommon combinations of ingredients)
5.) Not breaking any more Better Bottles!!!
6.) Not lose another $50 worth of grain to weevil infestation!!!
7.) Get a sour beer pipeline going
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